Libertarian-minded Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is edging up in what looks like a wide-open contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. A second national poll of the past three weeks puts Paul narrowly ahead, with scandal-plagued New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fading. The same poll, by CNN/Opinion Research International, puts Hillary Clinton far ahead among […]
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Libertarian-minded Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the decisive victor in a straw poll for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, conducted at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, D.C. C-PAC is a kind of annual tribal gathering of the right-thinking Republican base, a place where GOP White House aspirants try out their stump […]
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A normally reserved Sen. Maria Cantwell was exchanging bear hugs with fishermen in Seattle on Friday, hours after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved to stop a mammoth proposed mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, on grounds it would threaten the world’s greatest salmon fishery. Cantwell took the fishing industry’s cause, framed the Pebble Mine debate […]
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Hillary Clinton never warmed to Iowa in 2008, and the Hawkeye State never warmed to her. Minor gaffes multiplied, spending skyrocketed, gimmicks like the “Hill-a-copter” failed to work, and Clinton ended up a third place caucus finisher behind Barack Obama and John Edwards. (Remember him?) What a difference six years makes. Looking toward Iowa’s […]
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The biggest political losers of 2013 were those, here and across America, guilty of overconfidence, overreaching or failing to reach out enough. It was a year of upsets and upset people, of reversals of fortune, and self-inflicted wounds. Here is a list of eight people and two groups frustrated by the turn of events of […]
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